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Originally Posted by tkaufmann
Again: only actions which must be done on a certain day belong into the calendar. Everything else belongs into the next action list where you choose your next action based on context, available time, energy etc....
Sync tasks with due dates to the calendar where they belong. If no time, but only a date is set, make them all day events. Let the user choose which calendar he wants the tasks go in. And - if it's really needed by many - have an option to sync all tasks to the task-list.
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I agree with you that "only actions which must be done on a certain day belong [in] the calendar." But an action with a due date does not have to be done on that day. It could be done three days earlier, or two months earlier. What would you do with an action whose start date was 1 January 2008 and whose due date was 15 April 2008--create an iCal event that stretched over three and a half months?
I think David Allen's advice is sound: if you can ONLY do something on a particular date, it does not belong on your task list at all; it belongs on your calendar. But that's not the same as an action that must be done by a particular date but can be done at an earlier date.
The basic issue here is whether a due date is time- or day-specific. You think that it is; those of us who disagree think that it is not, because it is only a terminus ad quem.